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he went to the university of texas and he grew up in texas. than he then he was a foreign correspondent for uned press international. hen'st kind of fake guy, but then when "cbs evening news" became more important, when the news rogrs, th wackita ae anchor on -- in the 60's and was there for about 20 years into the early 80s. i just think that his im - hesi t vede id, hi time covering is certainly fascinating. he was a fascinating person because he was so thoughtful. i think douglas brinkley is a hesaiy es istorian. cevenhas aso taught at the naval academy in princeton, so he is a real historian and also does detailed, comprehensive research in his writing. so t biographyof ron thfivegr oink w walter cronkite, and i think both the fact that doug wrinkly rode it and my high regard for hi and the fact thatcki loin country, having this kind of the biography is an excellent thing for us to have for documentation in the future. thelbkha cer hi book. it is vital for use as. now vital voices as an organization that was formed with then senator hillar
he went to the university of texas and he grew up in texas. than he then he was a foreign correspondent for uned press international. hen'st kind of fake guy, but then when "cbs evening news" became more important, when the news rogrs, th wackita ae anchor on -- in the 60's and was there for about 20 years into the early 80s. i just think that his im - hesi t vede id, hi time covering is certainly fascinating. he was a fascinating person because he was so thoughtful. i think douglas...
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[laughter] in 1972, clinton is task by george mcgovern to run texas. as lost causes go, it is one of the great lost causes. [laughter] who is the only ally that they had? lyndon johnson. except for he was not sure either. the day comes when the government goes to the ranch, right after the convention just before they realized that tom eagleton might not be the best vice presidential candidate. bill clinton, the cochair of texas and mcgovern, and taylor branch, who would eventually be part of the clinton administration, flipped a coin about which one of them -- quentin says that taylor comes back from the meeting, which do not go well, by the way. a signed picture for clinton of lbj. that is as close as clinton got two leading lbj. what is great about the american presidency is that we all remember a motorcade going by. ronald reagan, on the back of the train somewhere in iowa -- i think it was the morning. i would not count on it. everybody has their creation stories that clinton never met lbj. he told us that he thought, as all presidents do, because
[laughter] in 1972, clinton is task by george mcgovern to run texas. as lost causes go, it is one of the great lost causes. [laughter] who is the only ally that they had? lyndon johnson. except for he was not sure either. the day comes when the government goes to the ranch, right after the convention just before they realized that tom eagleton might not be the best vice presidential candidate. bill clinton, the cochair of texas and mcgovern, and taylor branch, who would eventually be part of...
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second term as a clear failure, characterized by persistent economic downturn, extensive bank failures, texas devastation and in an art response on the part of the president. so i would say that overall his record is middling at best and the voters probably had it right, i think maybe historians for a little bit off the mark on that one. now historians can be influenced by various things. allan nevins, one of the premier historians at this time wrote a two volume biography of grover cleveland called grover cleveland, the study encourage, two volumes, more than you want to read about the guy. my next project is actually the 1890s when william mckinley for a hatchery as of this volumes that i'm not sure that i'm looking forward to it, but allan nevins is a beautiful writer, so i'm sure it's going to be a wonderful boat, wonderful biography. probably the influence of allan nevins on his colleagues in florence i rating and cleveland has trickled down since then, but he still rather high on 12, 13, 14. let's talk about john not dems. obviously a great man, great patriot and contributor to our nati
second term as a clear failure, characterized by persistent economic downturn, extensive bank failures, texas devastation and in an art response on the part of the president. so i would say that overall his record is middling at best and the voters probably had it right, i think maybe historians for a little bit off the mark on that one. now historians can be influenced by various things. allan nevins, one of the premier historians at this time wrote a two volume biography of grover cleveland...
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we love him in texas. he went to the university of texas. he grew up in houston and tn heas aorgnnt foitprinl. go of real reporter experience. he wasn't just the kind of a face guy but whenbs eng be -enhe orks had them walter cronkite started as the anchor in the 60s and was there for 20 years intthe early 80s and i idcoigpresidents and his time covering is certainly fascinating and he is a fascinating person because h was so thoughtful. i think douglas brinkley is s hfeora rice university and has also taught at the naval academy and princeton. he is a real historian who also se is ng so t comprehensive biography of cronkite will be the definitive biography of walter cronkite and i think the fact that doug brinkley wrote it and my hh rd for fact that cronkite is so well known and loved in our country and having this kind of biography is an excellent thing cuatinta fortoril la book i have a chapter in this book, vital voices. it is a organizatn that w llcln aas the honorary cochairs and i related this and put a chapter in as did secretary of
we love him in texas. he went to the university of texas. he grew up in houston and tn heas aorgnnt foitprinl. go of real reporter experience. he wasn't just the kind of a face guy but whenbs eng be -enhe orks had them walter cronkite started as the anchor in the 60s and was there for 20 years intthe early 80s and i idcoigpresidents and his time covering is certainly fascinating and he is a fascinating person because h was so thoughtful. i think douglas brinkley is s hfeora rice university and...
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when president clintoaiour age ct i82 the audience in texas, we heard a big, oh boy. [laughter] getting back to my point. it dn'eave to strip them or do anything dray conian. there's many things we can do. we, democrats, have to have the courage to do that. by the way, seniors are not stupid. they are smart. they are the mst lat pon. rs eyuntand. maybe the interest groups, they understand on the republican side of the equation, they got to get over the fear of groverort. ma oouha nrd him? he's, as i say in the book, is the most powerful man in the country today. why do i say that? well, he's the one who has this organization that forceseo ignox,en pledges. 236 congressmen, more than a majority signed, and 41 senators, enough to stop any legislation from occurring by filibuster, have also signed. grcolscoy. he literally controls the country. grover, not to say there's anything wrong with being small, but he's a little guy who looks like the nerd in college, and i woicheas li the wizard of oz.. nobody voted for him. nobody gave him reason to be this perful, and he's a f
when president clintoaiour age ct i82 the audience in texas, we heard a big, oh boy. [laughter] getting back to my point. it dn'eave to strip them or do anything dray conian. there's many things we can do. we, democrats, have to have the courage to do that. by the way, seniors are not stupid. they are smart. they are the mst lat pon. rs eyuntand. maybe the interest groups, they understand on the republican side of the equation, they got to get over the fear of groverort. ma oouha nrd him? he's,...
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he flew after getting his wings in texas, he started as a barnstormer. he knew that barnstormers didn't live very long. he didn't have a great future, so he became an army aviator and then he joined the airmail kick in when he was, when he was flying the airmail from st. louis to chicago one night after fonck crashed, he thought to himself i can do that myself. i thought, you know, like everybody else he thought fonck was going to win but then he thought if i can stay awake for 40 hours, which i've done as an airmail pilot, then if i flight alone and they keep the weight down i could have enough gas to make it across. and so, and his theory of how to do it was radically different from all the other pilots at that time. that's his plane, the spirit of st. louis when he landed a week before taking off. this is a photo of lindbergh shaking the hand of clarence chamberlain in front of the spirit of st. louis with byrd in between. you can see that lindbergh was quite tall. his nickname was slim. we were talking about this. at one time i knew, not sure whether
he flew after getting his wings in texas, he started as a barnstormer. he knew that barnstormers didn't live very long. he didn't have a great future, so he became an army aviator and then he joined the airmail kick in when he was, when he was flying the airmail from st. louis to chicago one night after fonck crashed, he thought to himself i can do that myself. i thought, you know, like everybody else he thought fonck was going to win but then he thought if i can stay awake for 40 hours, which...
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there are only three states that allow drilling offshore which is texas, louisiana, and alabama. everybody else doesn't allow it. another large gas spet on the east and west coast. okay, you know, that oil is -- [inaudible] i'm willing to develop a solution. -- [inaudible] how do you know you won't strike oil? for the first time in history -- [inaudible] every other kind of mining. india has the third largest reserve in the world because of -- [inaudible] india has become one of the big et. cetera em porters. i tried to write a column saying it imports oil. [inaudible] because of the difficulty. because started to open other commodities somewhat more resilient than he thinks except i would agree with him that oil and gas. the discovery of shell oil and shell gas in the united states that particularly technology is simple technology. it can be replicated enormous shale deposits over the world. china has the biggest, probably. they have once again become an exporter. they export all of that. for the opec countries is not good at all. on the other hand if the commodities are going t
there are only three states that allow drilling offshore which is texas, louisiana, and alabama. everybody else doesn't allow it. another large gas spet on the east and west coast. okay, you know, that oil is -- [inaudible] i'm willing to develop a solution. -- [inaudible] how do you know you won't strike oil? for the first time in history -- [inaudible] every other kind of mining. india has the third largest reserve in the world because of -- [inaudible] india has become one of the big et....
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texas air insignificantly which happens in war, but not necessarily to the same extent. the economy. gdp. significant dissent under attorney-general palmer became of the mess. urban riots erupted, and the war never yielded what it promised. by 1920 the american people were saying, we have to get rid of this guy. and then as a say, as an aside, he was a sanctimonious man. and, you know, we just don't like sanctimonious people. the sanctimonious presidents have been john quincy adams, james k. polk, quincy adams was a 1-termer. polk, a 1-termer by choice but to brought upon himself much more political difficulties during his one term in office than was needed. jimmy carter, in my view, george w. bush. i don't think that helps any of those presidents. the historians consistently have traded wilson as consistently and a great or near great category. voters, as i say, had a totally different view. so let's talk briefly about when the voters and historians converge. they converge on the greatest of the great, the man i call leaders of destiny. i have three criteria for those p
texas air insignificantly which happens in war, but not necessarily to the same extent. the economy. gdp. significant dissent under attorney-general palmer became of the mess. urban riots erupted, and the war never yielded what it promised. by 1920 the american people were saying, we have to get rid of this guy. and then as a say, as an aside, he was a sanctimonious man. and, you know, we just don't like sanctimonious people. the sanctimonious presidents have been john quincy adams, james k....
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we love them and texas. he went to the university of texas. he grew up in houston. and he was up foreign correspondents for united press international, got a lot of real reporter experience. he was not just to kind of face kind. but then when cbs evening news became more important, the news programs, the three major networks, walter cronkite started as the anchor in the 60's and was there for about 20 years into the early 80's. i just think that his time, he said he covered a president's. his time covering is certainly fascinating, and he was a fascinating person because it was of the awful. i think douglas brinkley is a wonderful a store in. he was in real historian here does detailed comprehensive research. so the biography of contact that he rode will be the definitive biography of walter cronkite i think of the fact that brinkley eroded and my high regard for him and the fact that crank and, of course, is so well known and loved in our country, having this kind of a biography is an excellent thing for us to have. a last book, have a chapter in this book, it's by
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i had one story abua doctor in texas h a wed ic raldsrcy the drug, so in the case he gave me many documents but i also interviewed thedmeof ta tea this book is patients because as a journalist i get a lot of e-mails and phone calls romai tv fe fcthsr thd g e enatr armed if they do get a settlement, and often they do it is to ee the story and it's just an otrages orsif ysur >>t:adet reg er talking about sources. but you wrote several times about different publications and homes do'clpndrgournalists who foior i erou iifoio. ipetoread a you mentioned my master's project advisorso i thought it s wohrautst beey isuiede epe hait aarticle basically cale elma that appeared in "the new york times" magazine. so i asked her because you talk about the fact we havefive wheerorh sry plener ts ne ft cn tws uc ilsn't disclosed and the articl and you talk about how you reached ill r iofe times and never goty. at a ad butelg that should have mentioned the research connection in the story. it was such a comlicated t wilste rioa we acsifo h reaan d w m n n' eg stat wohand should have included a paragraph expre
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i am from texas. i have to finish that. >> for more information on this and other summer reading list, visit tv.org. >> you terry eastland was a guest on booknotes in 1992, talking at
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working on the 19th century, working on migration of black southerners from mississippi and louisiana and texas and tennessee into kansas in 1879 right after the end of emancipation, and over and over and over again the documents that the people created said we are not safe. we are subject to violence. there are white writers and our neighborhoods who burn and pillage and rape and kill. so the whole question of bodily integrity, the freedom from violence, this has been a concern from the time of indentured servitude slavery, and remember that slavery into servitude rests on a foundation of personal violence. the person who owns you and controls you can rule you because that person can hurt you so, freedom from personal violence has been a concern throughout african-american history. so that is the first thing i want to put on the table to talk about personal violence, about social violence, about racial violence, and how crucial -- what an enormous difference it would make in our personal lives and in our national lives if people who identified as black didn't feel subject to personal violence.
working on the 19th century, working on migration of black southerners from mississippi and louisiana and texas and tennessee into kansas in 1879 right after the end of emancipation, and over and over and over again the documents that the people created said we are not safe. we are subject to violence. there are white writers and our neighborhoods who burn and pillage and rape and kill. so the whole question of bodily integrity, the freedom from violence, this has been a concern from the time...
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. >> host: needleland, texas. hi, robert. >> caller: hi. is it true that a mobster once said of truman, we bought him, but he didn't stay bought? >> guest: no. that doesn't sound familiar to he be at all. but -- no, doesn't sound familiar. >> host: well, what about his kansas city, for those who don't know kansas city -- >> guest: oh, now, there, there you're getting into the neighborhood though. and there were mobsters involve inside kansas city. involved in kansas city. he starts out as a small town farmer. you know, haberdasher ri and all this. theachine, tom pender gas machine, puts him up for office in 1922. he's elected from the rural areas. he's from the farm areas, lifelong democratic family involved in the masons, involved in the fraternal organizations, in the veterans' organizations. all the boys go over as a bunch out to the trenches in world war i. but this is a, he's running the county after a while as the head of the county legislature, government. but he's taking orders from the boss, and they are skimming off millions. and
. >> host: needleland, texas. hi, robert. >> caller: hi. is it true that a mobster once said of truman, we bought him, but he didn't stay bought? >> guest: no. that doesn't sound familiar to he be at all. but -- no, doesn't sound familiar. >> host: well, what about his kansas city, for those who don't know kansas city -- >> guest: oh, now, there, there you're getting into the neighborhood though. and there were mobsters involve inside kansas city. involved in...
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he went to the university of texas. he grew up in houston. then he was a foreign correspondent for the united presidents international, he got a lot of real reporter experience. he just wasn't a face guy. when "cbs evening news" became more important, walter cronkite started as the anchor, i think, in the 1960s, and was there for about 20 years into the early '80s. i just think that his time, he said he covered a president, and his time covering is certainly fascinating and he was a fascinating person because he was so thoughtful. i think douglas brinkley is a wonderful historian. he is a history professor at rice university. he has also taught at the noble double academy and princeton. he is a real historian who also does detailed comprehensive research. the book that he wrote, "cronkite", will be the definitive biography of walter cronkite. the fact that douglas brinkley wrote it in my high regard for him, and the fact that walter cronkite, of course, is so well known and loved in our country, having this kind of a biography is an excellent
he went to the university of texas. he grew up in houston. then he was a foreign correspondent for the united presidents international, he got a lot of real reporter experience. he just wasn't a face guy. when "cbs evening news" became more important, walter cronkite started as the anchor, i think, in the 1960s, and was there for about 20 years into the early '80s. i just think that his time, he said he covered a president, and his time covering is certainly fascinating and he was a...